"Warning: Donald Trump Is Americas Slobodan Milosević" By John R. Schindler 12/27/17

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By John R. Schindler • 12/27/17


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Milošević ruined Serbia just like he ruined most of Yugoslavia, inflicting political, social, and economic wounds that show few signs of healing even now.
In truth, he never cared about Serbs, he merely wanted power.
Cynically donning the cloak of nationalism, he fooled Serbs by telling them what they wanted to hear:
I will protect you. I will defend Serbdom.
I will restore prosperity. None of it was true.
His plan to Make Serbia Great Again was nothing but a charade.

Once he achieved power, Milošević really didn’t know what to do; he was better at fiery rhetoric than reality.
As a result, Milošević improvised crisis after crisis and left behind a broken and impoverished Serbia, smaller and weaker than it was before the First World War.

By the time Serbs figured out they had been conned, it was too late; the country was already wrecked, and Milošević managed to hold on until the fall of 2000, thanks to his control of the media and the police, enriching his family and his hangers-on every step of the way.
That he was eventually extradited to The Hague to face justice seems inadequate compared to the devastation which Slobodan Milošević left in his wake.

You can understand the remarkable rise of Donald Trump in 2015-16 by simply exchanging “Serbian nationalism” for “white nationalism”: the parallels are eerie and disturbing. ...
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